Mount Litera Zee School Jamshedpur
FINAL TERM 2022-2023
Subject: English (SAMPLE PAPER)
Grade: V Time: 1.5 hrs
Maximum Marks: 40
This paper has 4 sections.
Reading time of 15 minutes will be provided for this paper. The time allowed for
writing the answers is 1.5 Hours. Read the paper carefully before you answer the
questions.
All questions are compulsory. However, internal choice has been provided in some
questions.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].
All questions are to be attempted separately.
SECTION – A COMPREHENSION (5 Marks)
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions based on it.
Once there was a miser who sold all his possessions and, with the money, bought a
great lump of gold, dug a deep hole at the edge of the garden, and there he buried
his gold. Once a day, thereafter, the miser went to the garden, dug up his gold, and
embraced it lovingly. One of the miser’s workmen wondered why his master spent
so much time in the garden. One day, he hid behind a tree and soon discovered the
secret of the hidden treasure. That night, when the miser was fast asleep, the
workman crept into the garden and stole the lump of gold. When the miser found
that his gold was gone, he tore his hair and cried aloud in his despair. A neighbour
came running to see what the matter was, and the grief-stricken miser told him
what had happened. Then the neighbours said, “Pray to stop your weeping. Go and
find a stone. Place the stone in the hole and imagine that it is your lump of gold.
The stone will serve your purpose, for you never meant to use the gold anyway.”
“To a miser, what he has is of no more use than what he has not.”
Answer the following questions:
(1×5=5)
1. How did the miser get the lump of gold?
2. Why did miser spend so much time in the garden?
3. By whom was the gold stolen?
4. The neighbour advised the miser to put a stone in the hole because ____.
5. Choose the most appropriate title for this story.
SECTION – B GRAMMAR (8 Marks)
Do as directed:
1. We were received ___________. (fill with suitable adverb)
2. The peon is standing outside. (Identify the adverb and write its type)
3. The train is due __________ six. (fill with suitable preposition)
4. We walked towards the main road. (Identify the type of preposition)
5. She was ill. She went out in the rain. (Join the sentences using appropriate
conjunction)
6. Jai was angry__________ he controlled his anger. (Fill with conjunction)
7. Robin said, “Honesty is the best policy”. (Change into indirect speech)
8. The Principal commanded the assembly to stand in a straight line. (Change
into direct speech)
SECTION – C WRITING (7 Marks)
I) Write an article on importance of clean water.
(3)
OR
Write a short story beginning with the following:
The giant was following me and I……………
II) Write a diary entry of how you spent an eventful day in a city of your choice.
(4)
OR
Write a letter to your cousin telling him what you did during your winter vacation.
SECTION – D LITERATURE (20 Marks)
I. Choose the right options to complete the following sentences: [2]
1. The stonecutter was turned into different creatures by the mountain spirit
because he was
a. Dull b. contented c. envious d. discontented
2. The phrase ‘may his tribe increase’ means
a. May their numbers multiply b. may they be blessed
c. may they become angels d. may they lead the list
3. The old man told the king to
a. Put on the shirt of a happy man b. give a man his shirt
c. give man his shirt d. buy shirts for all the men in the kingdom
4. What happened when the narrator released an owlet on a mango tree?
a. It flew back to him b. it began to screech
c. Its mother attacked him d. It attacked him
5. What did the narrator’s grandfather do to the owlet he found in the veranda?
a. He shooed it away b. He gave it to the grandson
c. He took it to a vet d. He picked it up
6. The stonecutter wanted to be a rock after he became
a. the Sun b. the cloud c. a man d. the prince
7. A meeting was held in the court to discuss
a. How to make the king fall ill b. how to make the king feel well
c. who caused the king’s illness d. how to cure the people the kingdom
8. The expression ‘like a lily in the bloom’ means?
a. Pure and white light b. like the fragrance of a full bloom lily
c. as beautiful as a lily in bloom d. as short-lived as a flower
II. Answer the following with reference to the context: [4]
1. “Now there’s an unselfish mother for you…It’s obvious she wants us to keep an eye
on them”
a. Who said this and to whom?
b. Why did the speaker say that the mother was ‘unselfish’?
2. “It came again with a great wakening light”
a. What came again?
b. Where did it come?
3. “And to the presence in the room he said,
“What writest thou?”—the vision raised its head
a. Who was ‘the presence’?
b. What was it writing?
4. “She was evidently feeling sorry for her behaviour the previous day, because she
greeted us with a soft ‘whoo-whoo’”
a. Who is being spoken about in these lines?
b. How had she behaved the previous day?
III. Give the meanings of the following words: (any six) [3]
a. Sinister e. wrath e. remedy g. toiled
b. Thrive f. exceeding f. prolonged h. contented
c. Sprawling g. dwelt e. agile g. coveted
d. Shrivelled h. envied f. councillors h. adjoining
IV. Give the opposites of the following words: (any 6) [1.5]
a. Proud c. appeared e. different g. careful
b. Strange d. forgot f. indoor h. powerful
V. Make sentences using the following words: (any 6) [1.5]
a. Thrive
b. Inspires
c. Envied
d. Attacked
e. Terrified
f. Fancy
g. dwelt
VI. Answer the following questions briefly: [8]
a. Why did the owls like the narrator’s grandmother?
b. When did the stonecutter’s work seem to grow to be such a burden?
c. What was wrong with the king?
d. What was the angel writing? What did Abou Ben Adhem ask the angel to do?
e. Why were the messengers asked to look for a happy man in a place one
would not expect to find one?
f. Why was Abou Bin Adhem’s name in the list?
g. What made the stonecutter happy in the end?
h. Why did the speaker say that the mother was ‘unselfish’?
